THE BIG GIVE - Let's do it!!
 

What would you do if you were handed a bundle of cash—and told you have to give it all away? Challengers on Oprah's Big Give, a new series by Harpo Productions that will air on ABC Sunday March 2, have to face that very difficult question.

People from across the country are challenged to help total strangers so that they can feel the high of giving. Over eight weeks, they follow their every move, and in the end, the biggest giver wins $1,000,000!

So Greeks, let's try it! :) Here's $1,000,000. How would you give it back???

If they insist:

1. Tithes and offerings (because money keeps it all going)
2. Contribute to local service organizations' (NPHC, 100 Black Men, and Urban League) fundraising efforts.
3. Buy local officials a clue so they can figure out what to do with the public school system. I wouldn't donate money for them to get a clue. My money would go down the drain because it is only a quick solution. WHile I would be tempted to do the cliche' stuff like buy schools computers, I know that new computers don't reduce the crappiness of the school system.

Divide it among the MS Society, and AIDS service organizations. Specifically the MS Society for research and the ASOs to provide financial resources to their clients.

My church, my grandparents, Hope Lodge, Ronald McDonald House and Susan G. Komen.

I am sure there are other worthy causes I would select, but this is just off the top of my head

$100,000: Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
$200,000: Alpha Phi Omega Annual Fund
$200,000: Phillips Trust (My APO Undergraduate Service Fund)
$100,000: Rev. Daniel E. Power Memorial Grants and Scholarships
$300,000: African American Studies at Georgetown University
$100,000: City at Peace

$500,000 to set up a scholarship specifically for students majoring in English at my alma mater.
$300,000 to AKAEAF to endow a scholarship for black women pursuing graduate degrees mathematics in my grandmother's name.
$100,000 endowment for the tutoring program that I worked with; that should keep them in snacks, field trips, and supplies for a good few years.
$100,000 to sponsor an essay contest for middle school children in my city. The winners of the contest would receive an all expense paid educational trip overseas.

I'd give it to everyone that has student loans that are more than $25,000.

This I can get behind

1. $100,000 - I'd tithe 10 percent to my church
2. $150,000 - I'd take care of my family
3. $300,000 - for high school and collegiate scholarship (provided that recipients, after graduation, have to give similiarly for 5 years)
4. $250,000 -for community incentivization efforts. Communities successfully reducing crime, poverty and educational deficits would win subsidy $ from this pool.
5. $200,000 - Last money giveaway to lower-income families purchasing their first homes, particularly in "comeback" (read: depressed) communities.

may I just say that the biggest problem with first-time homeowners in depressed communities it not the purchasing of the home, it is the maintaining and keeping of it. So those of you using your money for purchasing might want to establish a maintenance/retention fund, also. ;)